TAMPA, Fla. – Up and down Tampa Bay’s shore on Saturday, people donned fake tattoos, paraded with stuffed parrots, put on quirky pirate costumes ... But as a three-masted ship draped in ...

While the legends of José Gaspar are full of alleged adventure and swashbuckling, history tells a different story.

are owed to what Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla call the “last of the Buccaneers,” the “legendary” pirate captain José Gaspar. The original Gasparilla Krewe in Tampa Bay says that Gaspar ...

The usual ceremony features hundreds of YMKG pirates who set sail from the south end of Hillsborough Bay on Gasparilla Day. They sail north through the Seddon Channel aboard the José Gasparilla ship, ...